I think Barret's response was more of an akward "uh err, hang in there cloud, this sucks" because he really doesn't know how to be gentle or sensitive. His solution to everything is to shoot his gun in the air
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I think the death scene was ruined for me because I knew about it so far in advance, and when it finally came around, it was just so awkward and stilted and filled with terribly translated blocky unemotional dialog that well...it was stupid. SO yeah, I didn't really have much of an emotional response to it other than "wtf was the point of getting her final limit break and ultimate weapon 5 seconds before she dies...I never get to f'ing use them when they would be useful."